just receieved a 419 email

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I've posted it here (and on three other forums) in case someone wants to play with them

My Dear One,
I am rashida bahar(Alhaja),46 years old and I have lost my husband who worked with our kuwaith Embassy for 9 years before his death.Please i need you to help me to do some charity work with the money he left for me in one of the prime bank here in Ivory caost.The money is $6,500,000.00 and it is still in the bank. I promise to give you 25%.i need a muslem person to do the work for me,My husband relatives are not muslems thats why i contacted you.
Recently my doctor told me that i have only but 3 months to die,due to my cancer illness.Am also suffering from stroke.
Thanks you and may Allah bless you. reply me here for more information: ([email protected] )
Regards,
rashida bahar.

[LonePiper]

3 months to die, huh? What happens after that? She springs back to life?

Hey! Maybe Jesus was a Nigerian scammer! hock:

[Kyuuketsuki]

I hate spammers (never heard that kinda shit called a "419" mail though). !

I get loads of those kind of things ... my reaction depends on my mood but I always thought it would be fun to start stringing them along.

Kyu

[LonePiper]

There's actually people who do that as a hobby:

http://www.419eater.com/

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I hate spammers (never heard that kinda shit called a "419" mail though). !

I get loads of those kind of things ... my reaction depends on my mood but I always thought it would be fun to start stringing them along.

Kyu

This only the second one I've ever received,hence my reaction..(I may have mentioned I'm a little paranoid about security)


From Wiki:

An advance-fee fraud is a confidence trick in which the target is persuaded to advance sums of money in the hope of realizing a significantly larger gain.[1] Among the variations on this type of scam, are the Nigerian Letter (also called the 419 fraud, Nigerian scam, Nigerian bank scam, or Nigerian money offer[2]),[3] the Spanish Prisoner, the Black money scam as well as Russian/Ukrainian scam (also extremely widespread, though far less popular than the former). Both the so-called Russian and Nigerian scams stand for wholly dissimilar organised crime traditions, they therefore tend to use altogether different breeds of approaches.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance-fee_fraud



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My response to the scammer:

Re: Your forward fees scam


Thank you you so much for your e mail. I like to begin each day with a good laugh.


EVEN if you were genuine:

I'm NOT Muslim,but atheist..

Although I'm not rich, I do not want or need money..

I don't know you,we are not related. I really don't care if you are dying from something painful and disgusting, get run over by a tank,or simply burst into flames.

IF you are a Muslim,you are disgrace.I hope you are punished under Sharia law.

I have forwarded your email to INTERPOL and THE AUSTRALIAN FEDERAL POLICE. With luck you should be hearing from them soon.

[LEDO]

I e-mail them back and say I will help them. All they have to do is to send $50 in good faith money to my Paypal account to prove they are not Nigerian. Sometimes I tell them I am an investor who does inside trading and I can triple their money in a month. All they have to do is to send it to my Paypal account.

[DunnoAnymore]

That's almost as funny as the email I received from a "Dr. Dike Ubaka" about eight years ago offering me 15 % of his amassed fortune if I only gave out my bank information (which I didn't have since I was a preteen at the time??)